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Immigrating to America Is Not an Entitlement

May 15, 2013 by Ying Ma

PJ Media, May 15, 2013

–Article by Ying Ma

As the drumbeat for comprehensive immigration reform grows louder, the related public debate has not become any more edifying.  Self-serving Democrats, delusional Republicans, and shameless illegal aliens (who prefer to call themselves “immigration rights activists”) insist that legalizing some 11 million illegal immigrants in this country is the right thing to do and label those who disagree as anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic.

Amid the finger pointing and political intimidation, some fundamentally flawed assertions have repeatedly surfaced. Below is some common sense that highlights the absurdity of the faulty assumptions.

Immigrating to the United States is a privilege, not a right. It certainly is not an entitlement program.

Read entire article here.

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Another Look at a Legal Immigrant’s Story

April 7, 2013 by Ying Ma

FOX & Friends, March 29, 2012

Ying Ma spoke to FOX & Friends about her journey to America’s inner-city as a legal immigrant and the importance of choosing liberty over the welfare state. This interview is re-posted here due to the widespread interest that Americans currently have in immigration reform.

Please view the three-minute interview here.

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Let the Market Check Beijing’s Ambitions

April 4, 2013 by Ying Ma

PJ Media, April 4, 2013

–Article by Ying Ma

In the 21st century, China looks like it could buy the world. With over $3 trillion in foreign currency reserves, China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt. Its sovereign wealth fund owns minority stakes in prominent U.S. financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley and the Blackstone Group, and Chinese state-owned corporate behemoths span the globe, gobbling up assets and resources from Australia to Canada, from Southeast Asia to Latin America.

U.S. policymakers know well that Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) brings jobs and other benefits to America’s weak economy, but many are alarmed by the influx of businesses that seem to respond to Beijing’s edicts more than they do to market forces. China’’s international bad behavior, such as aggressive cyber attacks against Western firms and government agencies, only magnifies the dangers of doing business with China’s government-affiliated entities.

Nevertheless, U.S. policymakers should not mistake the national security threats that China poses for the economic omnipotence of Chinese firms. In a world of intense global competition, and frequent hyperventilation about America’’s impending decline, avoiding an inclination to overestimate or panic over the prowess of China’s state-funded endeavors may be difficult, but would also be sensible.

To read the entire article, please click here.

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A Legal Immigrant’s Story

April 3, 2013 by Ying Ma

FoxNews.com, April 3, 2013

–Article by Ying Ma

The middle-aged woman representing the American Consulate in Guangzhou, China, said something in English. We could not understand, so we turned to her colleague. He looked Chinese and was supposed to be her translator, but he only spoke our language haltingly. My father tried to help with what little English he knew, which consisted of not much more than “how are you” and “thank you.” My brother and I sat quietly and played our part as the well-behaved children of aspiring immigrants to America. My mother looked on nervously.

We lived in China’s third largest city. Chairman Mao had passed away nearly ten years ago but the stench of his failed totalitarian policies was still everywhere. We lived in an apartment that had no running hot water, no refrigerator, no telephone and no modern toilet facilities.

We applied for immigration to the United States soon after China re-opened its economy to the world in the late 1970s. Now, after about four years of waiting, we had finally gotten to “the front of the line.” But on this day, it was not going to be good enough.

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China and the Dollar Standard

January 30, 2013 by Ying Ma

Professor_Ron_McKinnon-200pxx302Ronald I. McKinnon, the William D. Eberle Professor of International Economic at Stanford University and author of Unloved Dollar Standard: From Bretton Woods to the Rise of China, spoke to Friends and Foes of Liberty about America’s privileges and responsibilities under the dollar standard, the harm that U.S. monetary policy has inflicted on emerging countries like China and Brazil, and why an appreciation in China’s currency would not tilt the U.S.-China trade balance in America’s favor.

Hosted by Ying Ma, Friends and Foes of Liberty is an Internet radio show that features in-depth discussions with scholars, business leaders and policy experts on China, the free market and U.S. foreign policy.

To listen to the discussion with Prof. McKinnon, please click here, download the episode from iTunes, or use the blogtalkradio player below.

This interview was rebroadcasted by the Heartland Institute on its “Heartland Daily Podcast” on April 12, 2013.

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The Mother of All Solyndras

January 12, 2013 by Ying Ma

Weekly Standard, January 21, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 18

China’s solar power debacle

–Article by Ying Ma

When solar panel maker Solyndra declared bankruptcy in September 2011, the Obama administration defended its $535 million loan guarantee to the company by touting the need to compete with China. At a congressional hearing, Jonathan Silver, then executive director of the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office, said, “[In 2010, China] alone provided more than $30 billion in credit to the country’s largest solar manufacturers through the government-controlled China Development Bank. That’s roughly 20 times larger than America’s investment in the same time period.”

Since then, China has shown the world that massive government subsidies are no guarantee of business success. Today, the solar industry worldwide is suffering from oversupply, weak demand, and depressed prices, and many of China’s solar manufacturers are fighting huge financial losses, debt, and bankruptcy. Not surprisingly, the Obama administration, which was eager to follow China down the path of spending big on clean energy, has had little to say about the lessons to be learned from the current disarray of China’s heavily subsidized solar industry.

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Less Courage, More Free Market

January 12, 2013 by Ying Ma

PJ Media, January 11, 2013

–Article by Ying Ma

In cities across America, free-market ideas have been losing the battle against the welfare state for a long, long time. The November 2012 elections merely offered the latest depressing results. To reverse the tide, free-market believers should think about a brand new approach: stop demanding courage as the price of admission.

To read entire article, please click here.

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